And winter for Frost is a psychological landscape, an interior place of nostalgia, beauty, fear, death. All of these things pile in on poems about winter written by Frost.

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry; by Adam Plunkett; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 512 pp., $37.00. Frost’s wife, Elinor, died in March 1938.

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was ...

Jay Parini, a Robert Frost biographer, on “Nothing New,” a poem Frost wrote in 1918, which is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at a wool mill) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, had written a poem called ...

And winter for Frost is a psychological landscape, an interior place of nostalgia, beauty, fear, death. All of these things pile in on poems about winter written by Frost.

And winter for Frost is a psychological landscape, an interior place of nostalgia, beauty, fear, death. All of these things pile in on poems about winter written by Frost.

And winter for Frost is a psychological landscape, an interior place of nostalgia, beauty, fear, death. All of these things pile in on poems about winter written by Frost.

Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.